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End of WWII
Deadliest War, mostly between America & Germany. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Ended federal tolerance of racial segregation. -
Rosa Parks Incident
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, this began the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Ended on December 20, 1956. African Americans refused to ride Montgomery to protest against segregation on buses. -
Little Rock Nine Incident
President Eisenhower had federal troops escrt nine African Americans (The Little Rock Nine) into school & they ahd their first full day at school. -
Sputnik launched
Soviet Union created the "Space Age" by launching the worlds first artificial satellite. -
Bay pf Pigs Invasion
Young Cuban drove his army into Havana & overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, the nations American-backed president. -
U-2 Incident
Union of Soviet Socialists shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ended on October 28 1962. U.S found U-2 spy plane data that the Soviet Union was building missile sites in Cuba. -
March on Washington
More than 200,00 Americans gathered in Washington D.C. for a politically rally. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in jail, most famous letter ever written talking about freedom, segregation, rights, etc.
